Italians to America, Volume 13 May 1899 -Nov. 1899: List of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports

540 Pages·2002·32.99 MB·English

by  P. William Filby

ITALIANS
O
AMERICA
Italy, 1880-1899
ITALIANS
O
AMERICA
Lists of Passengers Arriving
at U.S. Ports
Volume 13
Passengers Arriving
at New York
May 1899-November 1899
Edited by
Ira A. Glazier
and
P. William Filby
SRScholarly Resources Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
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First published 2001
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Italians to America : lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports,
1880-1899 / edited by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8420-2843-9 (v. 13). — ISBN 0-8420-2465-4 (set)
1. Italian Americans—Genealogy. 2. Ships—United States—
Passenger lists. 3. Registers of births, etc.—United States.
4. United States—Genealogy. I. Glazier, Ira A. II. Filby, P.
William, 1911- .
E184.I8I844 1992
929'.3'08951073—dc20 92-24504
CIP
Contents
Foreword by P. William Filby, vii
Introduction by Ira A. Glazier, ix
Lists of Codes
Occupations, xxi
Villages, xxix
Destinations, li
Key, Ivii
Passenger Lists, 1
Index, 323
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Foreword
About 90 percent of the Italians who emigrated to the United States
came to New York, with the major arrivals beginning in about 1880.
Until then, comparatively few Italians migrated to America. However,
with the development of faster steamships to replace sailing vessels and
thereby shorten transoceanic voyages, and with Ellis Island opening in
1892 to facilitate the arrival of more immigrants, this situation changed,
and increased numbers of Italians began leaving their homeland. This
series of Italians to America will concentrate on the period from 1880 to
1899, with the first volumes listing those Italians who arrived in New
York and later volumes including other U.S. ports.
The original passenger lists, transcribed by shipping agents and
ships' officers and filed by all vessels entering U.S. ports, have been
used in the preparation of Italians to America. Although almost all
Italians departed from ports in their own country, this study also includes
Italian departures from other foreign ports. Presented in chronological
order by each ship's date of arrival, these passenger lists provide the
names of ships, ports of departure and arrival, and debarkation dates.
The researcher also can locate data regarding a person's age, sex, and
occupation as well as village of origin and destination when available.
An important feature of Italians to America is the extensive Italian-
surname index of ships' passengers included in each volume. These
indexes, containing approximately 750,000 names for the 1880-1899
period, will greatly facilitate the task of finding an ancestor's family
name, especially when the exact date or port of arrival in the United
States is unknown.
In addition to the passenger lists and name indexes, Italians to
America includes an introduction to the history of the Italian migratory
movement to the United States, with statistical data showing the total
Italian emigration to other selected countries, such as to Europe, Brazil,
and Canada. This series is an invaluable reference work for anyone
interested in genealogical research or in studying family history.
P. William Filby, Former director, Maryland Historical Society
Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, London
Fellow of the National Genealogical Society
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Introduction
Italians to America provides both the genealogist and the historian
with an extensive data base of Italian immigrants who came to the
United States between 1880 and 1915. This data base derives from the
original ship manifest schedules, currently housed at the Temple-Balch
Institute's Center for Immigration Research in Philadelphia. These
schedules were filed by all vessels entering U.S. ports in accordance
with the act of Congress of 1819. Although this series of Italians to
America includes only the years from 1880 to 1899, Scholarly Resources
plans to publish additional volumes for the 1900-15 period.
The passenger lists reproduced in these volumes are arranged in
chronological order by date of arrival. Italian passengers on these lists
who disembarked at New York are published in their entirety; the names
of non-Italian passengers are deleted.
According to the act of 1819, lists of all passengers were to be
delivered upon arrival to the local collector of customs, who made
copies that were then transmitted to the secretary of state and subse-
quently reported to Congress.1 The secretary of state also published
quarterly and annual summaries under the title of Statement of the
Number and Description of Passengers Arriving in the United States
between 1820 and 1870. These reports were later published by the
Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department from 1867 to 1895 and
by the Office of Immigration, now the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, after 1895.
The passenger lists make possible a detailed reconstruction of the
movement of population from the major sender countries, in the present
case Italy, by including information on the age, sex, occupation, and
nationality of each passenger and residence and putative destination.
Analysis of this information enables the researcher to identify U.S.
citizens returning to their country of origin, persons transitting the
United States, and immigrants. The manifests record deaths during the
voyage, although information on mortality is not reproduced in these
volumes. The lists herein also indicate the name of the ship, the port of
embarkation, and the date of arrival in the U.S. port.
Although the manifests provide significant information about nine-
teenth-century immigration, we know relatively little about the actual
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